Took a day off to rest and get caught up on photos and work on the blog and stuff. Yesterday was quite a day at the National Butterfly Center south of Mission, Texas. I didn't find a lot of great stuff on my own but I manged to survive on the spoils of Mak and Holly Salvato's expertise and efforts. Their best find was this Spot-celled Sister of which there are not many recordgs for the RGV. I think it's my fourth.
Earlier in the day Mark found a Yellow Angled-Sulphur. It was distant but that allowed my to fire away multiple exposures to get flight shots.
A short while later Mark called "White Angled-Sulphur!" I thought it was a female and asked him how he made the ID. But it was a male.
It took me a while but I eventually found Mark's Glazed Pellicia.
The Gray Cracker continued on its usual trunk. It did fly into the bait log and allowed a closer shot.
Mark and Holly also found this cool Pale-spotted Leafwing. Been quite a few this fall. I crawled down under it and got some interesting shots before it returned to the bait. I like that hooked fore wing.
More interesting flight shots included Florida White, Tailed Orange and a White-striped Longtail.
Here's the obligatory Mexican Bluewing and REd-bordered Pixie.
That's enough. Here's the list of 64 species.
- Pipevine Swallowtail 2
- Giant Swallowtail 2
- Florida White 4
- Great Southern White 3
- Southern Dogface 3
- White Angled-Sulphur 1
- Yellow Angled-Sulphur 1
- Cloudless Sulphur 4
- Large Orange Sulphur 15
- Statira Sulphur 1
- Lyside Sulphur 10
- Mexican Yellow 1
- Tailed Orange 5
- Little Yellow 5
- Mimosa Yellow 1
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Marius Hairstreak 4
- Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
- Gray Hairstreak 2
- Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak 12
- Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak 1
- Dusky-blue Groundstreak 4
- Clytie Ministreak 1
- Cassius Blue 2
- Ceraunus Blue 20
- Reakirt's Blue 2
- Red-bordered Pixie 5
- American Snout 12
- Gulf Fritillary 1
- Julia Heliconian 1
- Zebra Heliconian 8
- Mexican Fritillary 1
- Texan Crescent 1
- Vesta Crescent 1
- Phaon Crescent 5
- Question Mark 1
- Red Admiral 8
- White Peacock 2
- Band-celled Sister 2
- Spot-celled Sister 1
- Mexican Bluewing 4
- Common Mestra 8
- Gray Cracker 1
- Pale-spotted Leafwing 1
- Tawny Emperor 1
- Monarch 6
- Queen 25
- Soldier 2
- White-striped Longtail 3
- Long-tailed Skipper 2
- Dorantes Longtail 3
- Brown Longtail 2
- Glazed Pellicia 1
- Funereal Duskywing 1
- White Checkered-Skipper 3
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper 5
- Laviana White-Skipper 10
- Clouded Skipper 6
- Southern Skipperling 1
- Fiery Skipper 5
- Whirlabout 2
- Sachem 8
- Common Mellana 1
- Eufala Skipper 4
